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Santa Barbara: the home of the clicks (and the calls)

Eric Greenspan

Jason is another local Santa Barbara CEO and we had a great chat about Make It Work, Ring Revenue, Affiliate Marketing and life in SB. Some affiliates will sell anything to make a buck. Be careful out there as many have perfected this process and they are your competition. Read a lot, test, and find a niche.

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Five Startup Tips From Bill Gates

InfoChachkie

In Mark Suster’s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara , he advised his audience of entrepreneurial students to master two skills: selling and coding. His advice is essentially, "buck up, it’s called work for a reason." " [Tweet this quote]. He doesn't have tenure." " [Tweet this quote]. Treasure it.

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Ten Startup Tips From Steve Jobs

InfoChachkie

He overheard me talking about Steve Jobs in conjunction with the entrepreneurship class that I teach at UC Santa Barbara. I regularly bring successful entrepreneurs into my UC Santa Barbara classroom. As Harvard Professor Michael Porter notes, competitive advantage is not derived by doing things, “better, faster, cheaper.”

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Want To Trip Out? This Entrepreneur Can Hook You Up

InfoChachkie

In fact, for the past 27-years, he has specialized in bringing exotic travel destinations to those of us who are healthy and active but whose competitive sporting days are long behind us. Greathouse : Let''s start with a question that will be especially helpful for my UC Santa Barbara students. Ever fantasized about climbing Mt.

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Interview with Scott Lenet, DFJ Frontier

socalTECH

We've opened an office in Los Angeles, and continue to maintain one in Santa Barbara. We can tell whether they'll have a competitive advantage before we fund then. In boom times, folks think they'll just make a fast buck. He's in Santa Barbara. It's $55 million, which is two times the size of the first fund.